172 ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS [April, 'l2 



— the specific name a fitting one for the exquisite httle creature 

 with its jet black wings spotted with white and yellow, and 

 antennae ringed with black — and JJ^ormaldia phitonis, a dark 

 plutonic fellow in deep mourning. 



The big Corydalis cornnta is common and has been brought 

 to me dozens of times by bellboys and night watchmen, 

 though let alone severely by the hotel guests of both sexes. 

 A large Chauliodes, pectinicornis I think, flies occasionally 

 into the house at night. I have found good species of Lepi- 

 doptera in that room, too. The first and thus far the only 

 specimen I have captured of PolygraJiimate hebraiciim Hub. 

 was sitting on the white wall, where his green and black wings 

 showed to the best advantage, one evening when I first looked 

 at my trap. Coleoptera come there also, especially longicorns 

 from the oaks near my windows. Blaphidion villosum is rather 

 common and I have taken unicolor and chicrascens there, too. 



Employes and guests show a kindly interest in my researches. 

 As I came in from a walk one day I saw a young man whom I 

 knew but slightly, sitting upon the stairs in a constrained posi- 

 tion, head bent backward and eyes directed towards the top 

 wall near the ceiling. As I spoke to him he answered in a 

 greatly relieved tone that he had sat there over an hour, keep- 

 ing his eye on "that bug up there" for me. The "bug" proved 

 to be a good specimen of the handsome beetle Ebiiria 4-gemi- 

 nata Say., and the hearing of this sonorous name and trying to 

 commit it to memory seemed an adequate reward to the pa- 

 tient watcher. 



In the same bathtub of which I have spoken I found, this 

 last summer, a fine specimen of the longicorn Strotnatinm 

 piihescens Hald. It is a rare species in this part of the world, 

 and one of our best-known coleopterists here (a shy man, so 

 I will not name him) tells me he suspects it is but a wanderer 

 from some other region and but of chance occurrence. 



I take many rare, some new, species of Hemiptera at the 

 A\'ater Gap. Two specimens of a new capsid, one of each sex, 

 were taken on dififerent nights at the bottom of the bathtub, 

 which was fortunately dry just then. It is a Phytocoris and 

 has the manuscript name of prninosus Heid. 



